Bediuzzaman took him to the room where the Governor and other notables were gathered, and Sofi Mirza sat himself down as inconspicuously as possible in a place near the door. However, Bediuzzaman introduced him to all present, saying: "This is my father, Sofi Mirza Efendi!", and seated him at the top of the room next to Tahir Pasa.

Bediuzzaman's dress was distinctive. With a large dagger and pistol at his waist and a bandolier slung across his chest, baggy trousers, and on his head a shawl wound round a conical hat, it resembled the dress of a tribal chief rather than that of a scholar.

One of his friends, Malazgirtli Acem Aga, said to him one day:

"Seyda! Why do you not dress in accordance with the great learning you possess, in a manner becoming it?" Bediuzzaman replied:

"What are you saying, Acem Aga? Omer Pasa wanted to give me a villa, a thousand gold liras, and one of his daughters so that I would change my dress, and I still would not change it for all that."

As we shall learn later, of the reasons Bediuzzaman did not consent to forsake the local dress of eastern Anatolia, was his desire to draw attention to the region and its problems, to stress the importance of provincial development in maintaining the unity of the Empire, and, by publicizing local industry, to create a demand for it. That is to say, Bediuzzaman wore this striking dress not for self advertisement, but to serve the cause of the Empire and its unity and progress.

One day, Bediuzzaman fell out with Tahir Pasa during a discussion, and he left the Governor's residence and barricaded himself in his medrese, the Horhor Medrese, together with a few of his students. When they came to get him, Bediuzzaman put two conditions to them. Firstly, they were not to arrest him in his medrese, as it would slight its honour and reputation, but could do